Dark Femmes #29

Anna - Criss Cross

Hilde Hagen - Insomnia (1997)

Marion Castle - The Big Knife

Fay Forrester - Kill Me Again

Belle - Belle et la Bete

Bridget Gregory - Last Seduction

Vera - The Servant

Helene Regnier - La Rupture

Norma Desmond - Sunset Boulevard

Mona Demarkov - Romeo is Bleeding

Toni Marachek - Strange Love of Martha Ivers

Gloria Decrey - Le Dos Au Mur

Lilly Dillon - The Grifters

Celia Lamphere - Secret Beyond the Door

Helen Nosseross - Night and the City

Adele Corners - Kalifornia

Pauline Nevins - Scarlet Hour

Marie Gardner - Nightfall

Too Many Times

      He had been the same route too many times. He'd been there before, so double-damned often, and however you travelled - backward, forward, or walking on your hands - you always got to the same place.

The Grifters
Jim Thompson
1963

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Jody9

Lady from Shanghai

Lady from Shanghai
Orson Welles
1947

But Never Quite

I see (Marlowe) always in a lonely street, in lonely rooms, puzzled but never quite defeated.

Raymond Chandler

Letter to Maurice Guinness 

Feb 21st 1959

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On Noir Set #55

Brighton Rock

Mystic River

Pickpocket

Killing of a Chinese Bookie

Scarlet Street

Carol

Fallen Idol

Chinatown

Bullitt

Jackie Brown

Tragedy of Macbeth

Dead Man Walking

On the Waterfront

That Horn Flew

   
              The melody got lost, first off. Everything got lost, then, while that horn flew. It was only jazz ; it was the heart of jazz, and the insides, pulled out with the roots and held up for everybody to see ; it was the blues that told the story of all the lonely cats and all the ugly whores who ever lived ........

Charles Beaumont
Black Country
1954

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Fats Navarro

More Elevator Shadows

The Grifters

Breaking Bad

Odds Against Tomorrow

Blade Runner

I Wake Up Screaming

Barton Fink

Elevator to the Gallows

Heat

Maltese Falcon

Matrix

Double Indemnity

Drive

The Big Clock

Better Call Saul

Angel Heart

Three Days of the Condor

Mad Men

Murder My Sweet